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Sainte-Barbe

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Bombe			F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne	11/1883	16.4.1885	10/1887	stricken 1911
Couleuvrine			F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne	1883	30.6.1885	1887	stricken 1911
Dague			F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne	6/1884	6/1885	1888	stricken 1905
Dragonne			F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne	10/1884	28.8.1885	1888	stricken 1910
Flèche			F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne	10/1884	8.11.1885	1888	stricken 1912
Lance			F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne	12/1884	20.4.1886	1890	stricken 1914
Sainte-Barbe			Claparède, Quevilly	1884	10.10.1885	1890	stricken 1911
Salve			Claparède, Quevilly	1884	6.2.1886	1890	stricken 1906

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	369 - 430
Displacement full, t
Length, m	59.2 pp
Breadth, m	5.97
Draught, m	3.17 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VC, 4 locomotive boilers
Power, h. p.	1800
Max speed, kts	18 - 19
Fuel, t	coal 108
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armour, mm	steel; CT: 13
Armament	2 x 1 - 47/40 M1885, 5 x 1 - 37/20 M1885, 2 x 1 - 350 TT
Complement	70

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Project history

These vessels had three light raking masts, originally with a fore and aft rig, and a single raking funnel abaft the foremast. The bow was slightly ram-shaped with an overhanging stern and the sides curved in to a narrow upper deck. The 3pdrs were mounted forward and aft and in sponsons on either beam, with the TT in sponsons further aft. Dragonne was fitted for experiments with howitzers in 1896. The boilers in this class gave great trouble and led to delay In completion.

Ship protection

CT had 13mm sides.

Modernizations

1890s, Bombe, Dague, Lance, Saint-Barbe, Salve: were reboilered with 4 Guyot du Temple boilers

1890s, Flèche: was reboilered with 4 Lagrafel d'Allest boilers

Naval service

No significant events.